Solution Architect Job

Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills, talents and education to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of? Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow? A professional position at Xcel Energy could be just what you’re looking for.

Relationship Management – Collaborates with key stakeholders on IT solutions and mediates compromises. Facilitates decision process, requirements, pain points and challenges knowing relevant industry trends and gains consensus. Works closely with IT Security to ensure adherence to security standards. Peer-reviews work and provides feedback in accordance with architecture standards. Interacts with vendors to maintain existing services and to deploy new capabilities. Supports internal and external audits.

Strategy and Planning - Makes recommendations on strategic direction and roadmap for use and implementation of applications and third party integrations to drive productivity improvements, efficiencies, risk mitigation and cost savings. Provides technical leadership and architectural direction to IT peers concerning end-to-end lifecycle management of technical solutions. Manages technology footprint.

Operations Management – Diagnoses business area specific applications and counsels on systems performance, capacity, and growth. Manages various process improvement projects to increase operational efficiency. Ensures architecture diagrams currency. Keeps current with new technologies and programming languages in order to develop secure and cost effective solutions.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor's degree in science or information technology or related field or equivalent experience.

Eight yrs prior IT experience with emphasis on support of infrastructure systems and related technologies.

Demonstrated knowledge and experience in full systems development life-cycle, and enterprise architecture frameworks.

Excellent verbal and written communication, negotiation and influencing skills.

A condition of employment will be successfully obtaining and maintaining General Security Clearance and a Nuclear Security Clearance for unescorted access to Xcel Energy nuclear plants including successful completion of nuclear General Access Training (GAT) and the nuclear security screening process (typically consists of an alcohol/drug screen, a criminal history check, a psychological assessment, initial credit and background investigation and periodic credit & criminal history checks).

As a leading combination electricity and natural gas energy company, Xcel Energy offers a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.4 million electricity and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight Western and Midwestern states. At Xcel Energy, we strive to be the preferred and trusted provider of the energy our customers need. If you’re ready to be a part of something big, we invite you to join our team.